I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 83

Chapter 42.1

The next moment, a serpent-like cloud of black mist emerged from his shadow before it dragged the hounds roughly and placed them on the horses’ backs.

“Careful, careful.”

As I fidgeted, worried that they were being treated like luggage, Dimitri, who had been silently watching me, suddenly let out a groan as he opened his mouth.

“Look at their frames. It would be me who’d get hurt because of pushing them around, Rowaine.

“Let me see.”

“It feels throbbing, to say the least.”

“Come here then. I’ll treat you.”

“Should I show you my wounds? Even though it’s just the two of us, I don’t like to take my shirt off outdoors. Let’s go home quickly. I’ll hold it in.

I narrowed my eyes and glared at him.

“…It doesn’t hurt, does it? Are you lying?”

He insisted without reservation.

“It hurts like a lie*. Come on, get on the horse. I want to leave quickly.”
[ T/N: ‘Like a lie,’ here is an idiom that means changing completely from what it was in the past. ]

He hurried me to get on the horse. However, once I was seated, he took the reins only after carefully adjusting his hair and smoothing out every wrinkle in his clothes. Even though the vice captain offered to handle it, Dimitri waved him off as if he had already done it and led the horse himself.

“Let’s go.”

Anyway, it was fortunate that he looked fine with no injuries. I sighed in relief and nodded my head.

“Let’s go home.”

I was exhausted physically and mentally and wanted to rest. Dimitri, who glanced at my exhausted figure, comforted me.

“When we join the rest of the knights, I’ll rent a carriage, so be patient even if you’re tired for now.”

“All right”

Then, Dimitri asked as if he had suddenly remembered.

“But, who was the one who got stuck in the carriage instead of Rowaine?”

“Oh, did you see that as well?”

As I remembered the scapegoat that I had forgotten, I burst into laughter even though I was exhausted.

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“Rowaine ran away?”

Count Larscel, who received the report from his subordinates, could not understand what they were saying at all.

“…Then, who’s in the carriage?”

“I’ve had them bring the carriage back. Ah, it looks like they’ve arrived now.”

When he saw the carriage stop outside the window, he ran outside quickly. Having the servants tear off the nail blocking the door and open the wagon door, he eventually saw the person inside and shouted.

“No, you…?”

“Heungg, honey!”

It was Countess Larscel, who was lying on the floor of the carriage, with her face covered in tears. Somehow she crawled out of the sack, but it seemed that she was struggling to untie the chains and was unable to move from the corner.

” I said no, huu—! Stupid bastards gagged me! Heungg…!”

Uttering so, the Countess wept bitterly.

“Rowaine, that b*tch…!”

The Count’s body trembled with a reddened face.

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I laughed mischievously, imagining how far Countess Larscel was taken before she returned.

“It must be the Countess who got into the carriage. I put on a shawl full of my body scent on her.”

The shawl I gave to the Countess was the shawl that I had rubbed and worn all over my skin and put my body odor on it as much as possible. You would not know how much I held it dearly throughout the carriage ride.

“But, it wouldn’t confuse the hounds that much?”

“What if I had completely wiped the body scent from my body and given the Countess the shawl that was the only thing that had my scent?”

“That can’t be possible. The body scent doesn’t go away even if it’s covered with other scents.”

At his words, I took out the perfume in a small glass bottle and showed it to Dimitri.

“I came across this by accident. Magical perfume.”

I made up the excuse moderately.

“It’s a little different from its intended use, but after using it, it seems to disturb the sense of smell of dog shapeshifters.”

After spraying the perfume to show him, he nodded his head as if he understood.

“It’s a perfume based on white magic. It doesn’t work for me though it’s quite interesting from what you said.”

“Right? I thought it might be useful, so I decided to sponsor the research of the person who made it.”

I never knew when I would be chased by the Emperor’s hounds again, so it would not be bad to build trust with Avila in advance. I thought it was very simple up until this point… Without knowing how I would become involved with the original female lead through my choice of the day.

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